Combined match-box and ash-receiver



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COMBINED MATCH BOX AND ASH REGEIVBR. No. 523,599.

A Patented July 24, 1894.

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Apanying drawings, which form part of this l UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE.

THEODORE SOHAFER, OF MAROA, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED MATCH-BOX AND ASH-RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION fOImng part 0f Letters Patent N0. 523,599, dated July 24,1894.

Application filed February Z3, 1894. Serial No. 501,190. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, THEODORE SGHAFER, of Marca, in the county of Maconand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin a Combined Match-Box and Ash-Receiver; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had to the accomspecification.

My invention relates to a combined match box and ash receiver; and theobject of the same is to provide a device which may be convenientlycarried in the pocket as a match box, and which may also be adj usted toform an ash-receiver.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafterfully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of the device ascarried in the pocket. Fig. 2 is a similar view as a box and receiver.Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view.

A is a box preferably oblong in form having a lid B mounted upon aspring hinge so as to open automatically when released from latch C. Thetop D of the box is roughened to form a match strike, and is also formedwith the depressed longitudinal grooves E in which fit the longitudinaland down turned edges F of ash receiver G. This receiver formssubstantially a jacket for the bottom and sides of the box, and whenwanted for use is drawn out as shown in Fig. 2, thus forming aconvenient ash receptacle. The opposite ends of the receiver and box areflanged as shown at l-l so as to be conveniently grasped. The device isa valuable adjunct to a smokers outfit as it constitutes two importantdevices arranged togetherin a. most compact manner.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of receiver G open at its top and at one end, inwardlyand downwardly turned edges F forming substantially closed spaces at thesides of the receiver from which material cannot escape if the receiveris upset, box H having a continuous wall and provided with a permanentlyclosed end and .a door at its opposite'end, and the integral U- shapedgrooves E depressed in thenpper side of the box and in which the saidedges F fit, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE SOHAFER.

Witnesses:

B. F. SHIPLEY, v J. S. STOUTENBOROUGH.

